[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#806904: Please document how to switch to gpg2

[Guido Günther]

Package: gnupg2
Version: 2.1.9-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,
I wanted to use gpg2 for "everything" like signing git tags, etc. Since
these tools still invoke gpg directly I checked /etc/alternatives/gpg
but did not find any so I went for:

cat <<EOF
#!/bin/bash

exec gpg2 "$*"

in the path to invoke gpg2 instead of gpg Is that the recommended
procedure in Debian atm or did I miss docs on that? I checked

    man gpg2

and /usr/share/doc/gnupg2/README.Debian but did not find any pointers on
this issue.
 -- Guido (very likely missing something obvious)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnupg2 depends on:
ii  dpkg           1.17.25
ii  gnupg-agent    2.1.9-1
ii  install-info   6.0.0.dfsg.1-3
ii  libassuan0     2.4.0-1
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.6-8
ii  libc6          2.19-22
ii  libgcrypt20    1.6.4-3
ii  libgpg-error0  1.20-1
ii  libksba8       1.3.3-1
ii  libreadline6   6.3-8+b3
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages gnupg2 recommends:
ii  dirmngr  2.1.9-1

Versions of packages gnupg2 suggests:
pn  gnupg-doc   <none>
pn  parcimonie  <none>
pn  xloadimage  <none>

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